3 Guilty Of Shackling, Abusing Tracy Teen Could Get 30 Years

Kyle Ramirez, 18, is escorted by deputies from a San Joaquin County courtroom where he testified in the trial of Anthony Waiters, for the allegedly abduction and false imprisonment of Ramirez, when he was 16-years-old. Waiters, 31, is one of four accused of torturing Ramirez and holding him captive in a Tracy home for more than a year. Waters has pleaded not guilty to aggravated mayhem, torture, kidnapping and false imprisonment charges involving the teen. (AP)

Kyle Ramirez, 18, is escorted by deputies from a San Joaquin County courtroom where he testified in the trial of Anthony Waiters, for the allegedly abduction and false imprisonment of Ramirez, when he was 16-years-old. Waiters, 31, is one of four accused of torturing Ramirez and holding him captive in a Tracy home for more than a year. (AP)

TRACY (CBS/AP) — A San Joaquin County judge is expected to decide Monday the punishment for three people who beat, burned and held a teenager captive for more than a year.

The scheduled sentencing comes two years after a soot- and sore-covered Kyle Ramirez, then 16, stumbled into a Tracy health club nearly naked with a chain shackled to his ankle after escaping abuse.

Two months ago, Michael Schumacher, his wife, Kelly Layne Lau, and the teen’s then-legal guardian, Caren Ramirez, all pleaded guilty to more than a dozen felonies, including use of a deadly weapon and causing great bodily injury to a child.

As part of their agreement, prosecutors withdrew a charge of torture, which could have led to life in prison.